South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley appeared on NBC's "TODAY" show on Wednesday morning following her nationally-televised Republican response to President Barack Obama's State of the Union address on Tuesday night.

Mark Lauer read some of the praise and criticism of Haley's response and let the governor respond.

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"I respect all of those people and understand their opinion, but I disagree. I think a lot of what we are trying to do is say those angry voices are not helpful," Haley said.

When asked about a vice-presidential run, she said, "I really haven't thought about it. I know that people in the media don't believe that but I was given an opportunity to say what I think."

When Lauer asked if she would accept the position of vice-president, Haley said, "If a candidate wanted to sit down and talk, I would sit down and talk. I think that's a big decision, a family decision, it's a state decision.It's something I would have to think about."

Haley was asked to give the response by Speaker of the House Paul Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell the first week in December. The governor called the opportunity an "honor" and "humbling."

Ryan said the 43-year-old is the right choice to lay out a positive vision and alternative to the status quo.

"The reason why I didn't want it to be a response to the president is that I am certainly not one to compete against the President or try to imply that I could be," Haley said last week. "What I did want to do is take this as an opportunity to express the challenges I think we have faced in our state, but also in our country and the solutions that we think and opportunities that could be there, so this will be very much just an address that allows me to talk to the country in a way that I thinktalks about things that I believe are important."

The two-term governor is the country's youngest governor and a rising star in the GOP. She is already being considered as a potential vice presidential candidate in the 2016 presidential race.